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While exiting the read door on the engineer side of locomotive #1200 to set the hand brake the employee stumbled down the two steps to the cat walk. The employee was carrying a lunch bucket therefore had no way to catch self resulting in a broken right leg and fractured right ankle. The area was dry and had zero moisture accumulation. Area was well lit. Approximately 47F out.

Employee tripped and stumbled over a pallet in the maintenance shop yard and struck the front bucket of a parked backhoe causing the fracture of 3 ribs.

Employee attempted to align a railroad switch. When employee rotated EE's torso and exerted the appropriate amount of force to move the switch handle to the opposite position, EE's right foot slipped off of the cross tie into the adjacent ballast gravel used to stabilize the switch. This caused the employee's lower body to do the splits, resulting in a strain to the lower back.

Driver fell off scales 5 Ft onto ground. Bruising to left side of body.

The injured ee was re-arranging miner cable on the mine floor when he fell backwards onto his back. The ee continued to work; a few minutes later he stated he felt back pain. He was treated on the section and transported to the surface where an ambulance transported him to the local hospital.

Employee arose from a sitting position while on break and temporarily blacked out causing him to fall forward out of the conductor's shanty and onto the track ballast rock resulting in lacerations to the forehead and chin requiring 1 staple and 3 stitches.

The EE was unloading a leaf spring at the end of the track. The EE lost his footing and fell into the manbus-pinching his right hand between the spring and the manbus,resulting in injury to two of his fingers.

The ee stepped into a muddy spot, while removing his foot from the mud he experienced back pain. The ee finished his shift & worked the remainder of the week before seeking medical attention. This ee has had surgery to his back following a reportable incident in 2008. The doctors office informs SunCoke that "he will likely continue to have problems at work or not" (3/18/2013).

The ee was crossing the belt near #3 belt drive when he hurt his hand and arm. The ee received fractures to his left hand and left arm.

The ee was hauling loose material from a settling pond and stepped from the cab onto the dump bed steps to check the placement of material. The ee was standing on the 3rd step when the step collapsed. The ee was holding on to the top of the bed and did not fall to the ground, but did slip down and made contact with the broken step-resulting in a laceration to the leg.

The ee had traveled by scoop to T-Section intake to retrieve conveyor belt to supply a belt move on another section of the mine. The ee inserted a chain through the layers of belt that were on the mine floor & jumped across the belt to the opposite side. He felt a "pop" in his right knee resulting in pain & swelling to the knee.

A belt person uncoupled a 2" waterline on the off-side of the #7 main line belt. He placed the 20' joint of water line across the belt to the track side to reconnect the line. The injured ee slid across the belt & as he stood up his feet slipped on the muddy mine floor resulting in the ee falling & striking his right hip on the track side belt rail resulting in a bruised muscle.

A 3rd shift crew was assigned to advance the belt one break. They had trammed the feeder out of the way and were in the process of moving the feeder cable when an ee pulling the feeder cable received a shock from a damaged shuttle car cable laying on the muddy mine floor in the #4 crosscut. As a result of the shock the ee fell to the mine floor striking his back on 3 crib blocks.

EE was walking up steps to office door and failed to raise foot high enough for step resulting in the toe of his shoe catching the step causing him to fall onto the floor and into the door jam. Suffered minor abrasions to right leg and left cheek of face. No first aid was required.

The ee was in the process of moving a trash dumpster using an endloader at the Slate Creek Portal. He had dismounted the loader and was walking across the level surface area when he tripped and fell resulting in a fracture to his right ankle. He was taken to Clinch Valley Medical Center for treatment.

A shuttle car operator was installing a ventilation curtain in the #5 crosscut when her foot became stuck in the mud causing her to trip and twist her right knee. The ee reported the incident to her foreman & continued her regular duties. The EE continued to work her regular shift-until 5-2-12 when she went to the doctor & he told her to take off from work for the next 3 days.